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This may be shooting off in different directions, but I have to say
There are people who - when given the chance - would use torture for sadistic pleasure, but very very few. When these things are abused (and when torture is an option it is always abused) it has far more to do with power and fear than it does to do with sadism. The people who are waterboarding Pakistani teenagers in god forsaken hell holes are not doing it because they are sexual perverts, I think we can broadly be sure of that.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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